Births
1840 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist
1857 - Andrija MohoroviÄiÄ, Croatian seismologist
1872 - Paul Langevin, French physicist
1876 - Otto Diels, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1907 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1918 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1919 - Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist
1929 - John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1937 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist
1971 - Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist
1988 - Charles Glen King, American biochemist
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1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist
1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist
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1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer
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